Vehicle control system and vehicle control device

Abstract

A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle control device that is mounted on a vehicle a portable device that is carried by a user and performs wireless communication with the vehicle control device; and a living body sensor that detects presence of a living body in a vehicle interior of the vehicle. The vehicle control device includes: an in-vehicle transmission unit that transmits a response request signal to the portable device; an in-vehicle reception unit that receives a response signal returned from the portable device in response to the response request signal; and a notification control unit that does not perform notification to the vehicle interior or an outside of the vehicle when the living body sensor detects that the living body is present in the vehicle interior and the in-vehicle reception unit receives the response signal.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A vehicle control system comprising:
 a vehicle control device that is mounted on a vehicle; 
 a portable device that is carried by a user and performs wireless communication with the vehicle control device; and 
 a living body sensor that detects presence of a living body in a vehicle interior of the vehicle, 
 wherein the vehicle control device comprises:
 an in-vehicle transmission unit that transmits a response request signal to the portable device; 
 an in-vehicle reception unit that receives a response signal returned from the portable device in response to the response request signal; and 
 a notification control unit that does not perform notification to the vehicle interior or an outside of the vehicle when the living body sensor detects that the living body is present in the vehicle interior and the in-vehicle reception unit receives the response signal, 
 
 wherein the vehicle control device comprises a getting-in intention estimation unit that estimates whether the user has an intention to get in the vehicle, and 
 wherein the in-vehicle transmission unit transmits the response request signal to the portable device when the getting-in intention estimation unit estimates that the user has an intention to get in the vehicle, 
 the vehicle control system further comprising: 
 an off-time measurement device that measures a time during which a traveling drive source or an ignition power source of the vehicle is off, 
 wherein the getting-in intention estimation unit estimates that the user has an intention to get in the vehicle when it is detected that a door other than a door of a driver's seat of the vehicle has been opened and the time measured by the off-time measurement device has elapsed a predetermined time or longer. 
 
     
     
       2. A vehicle control system comprising:
 a vehicle control device that is mounted on a vehicle; 
 a portable device that is carried by a user and performs wireless communication with the vehicle control device; and 
 a living body sensor that detects presence of a living body in a vehicle interior of the vehicle, 
 wherein the vehicle control device comprises:
 an in-vehicle transmission unit that transmits a response request signal to the portable device; 
 an in-vehicle reception unit that receives a response signal returned from the portable device in response to the response request signal; and 
 a notification control unit that does not perform notification to the vehicle interior or an outside of the vehicle when the living body sensor detects that the living body is present in the vehicle interior and the in-vehicle reception unit receives the response signal, 
 
 wherein the vehicle control device comprises a getting-in intention estimation unit that estimates whether the user has an intention to get in the vehicle, and 
 wherein the in-vehicle transmission unit transmits the response request signal to the portable device when the getting-in intention estimation unit estimates that the user has an intention to get in the vehicle, 
 the vehicle control system further comprising: 
 an outside image sensor that captures an image of a predetermined area outside the vehicle, 
 wherein the getting-in intention estimation unit estimates that the user has an intention to get in the vehicle when the user is imaged within the predetermined area by the outside image sensor.